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“Bowing out gracefully is a rare thing in the starchitect firmament”

March 5, 2024 Catherine Slessor 0

Architecture has a long tradition of famous figures working well into their old age but sometimes it’s best to know when to stop, writes Catherine Slessor. Though it seems like only yesterday that the ribbon was being cut on the Bilbao Guggenheim, Frank Gehry turned 95 at the end of February. Architecture’s original enfant terrible,

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“Do you like it, corporate overlords?” asks commenter

November 29, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing an extension of media company Warner Bros’ headquarters in Burbank, completed by LA architecture studio Gehry Partners. The complex features two distinctive facades – glass intended to evoke the form of icebergs is interspersed with steel facades modelled on the art deco-style buildings of early Hollywood. “The

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Gehry Partners references icebergs and Hollywood for Warner Bros building

November 22, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

LA architecture studio Gehry Partners has completed the extension of media company Warner Bros’ headquarters in Burbank, which juxtaposes two distinctive facade styles. Called Second Century Burbank, the Gehry Partners-designed complex contains additional offices and studios for the headquarters, which is flanked by a major highway and the studio lot. Its name marks the celebration

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BIG and Frank Gehry among studios with “singular visions” for US Navy Museum

April 18, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

BIG, Gehry Partners and Perkins&Will are among the five studios that have been selected as finalists in a contest to design the future National Museum of the US Navy. US governmental agency Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) released the winning designs from a competition launched to explore potential designs for the museum, which called

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Frank Gehry’s long-awaited Ocean Avenue Project in Santa Monica finally approved

July 27, 2022 Jane Englefield 0
Ocean Avenue Project by Frank Gehry

A mixed-use development by architect Frank Gehry, which has been almost a decade in the making, has been granted final approval to be built in Santa Monica, California. Recently given the go-ahead by the Santa Monica City Council, Ocean Avenue Project will be a mixed-use complex including housing, a hotel, restaurants and shops as well as an art

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Dezeen Debate newsletter features Frank Gehry’s The Grand skyscrapers

July 21, 2022 Serena Lawrance 0

The latest edition of Dezeen Debate features a pair of skyscrapers designed by Frank Gehry. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Gehry’s The Grand skyscrapers have opened across the street from the architect’s famous Walt Disney Concert Hall. The complex in downtown Los Angeles features residences, retail spaces and a hotel. Both of the towers feature unique L-shaped

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Frank Gehry’s The Grand skyscrapers open in Los Angeles

July 19, 2022 Ben Dreith 0
The Grand Gehry

A pair of skyscrapers designed by architect Frank Gehry that contain residences, retail spaces and a hotel have opened in Los Angeles across from the architect’s famous Walt Disney Concert Hall. The Grand complex occupies a full block in downtown Los Angeles directly across the renowned Walt Disney Concert Hall, which Gehry completed in 2003.

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Frank Gehry “never considered himself a deconstructivist”

July 19, 2022 Tom Ravenscroft 0
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Architect Frank Gehry did not consider himself to be part of the deconstructivism movement and was told by philosopher Jacques Derrida that his work was not deconstructivist. Although many of Gehry’s buildings are considered deconstructivist, when he was asked to be interviewed for Dezeen’s series on deconstructivism his team explained that he did not see

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